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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead